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Greater Seattle Area

As an Employment Connections Lead at the WorkSource North Seattle, a sample of my activities includes:• Delivering career coaching and reemployment counseling to dozens of Seattle area job seekers each week, enabling them to enhance their careers or return to worthwhile and satisfying employment.• Facilitating several job-seeker workshops, including those on resume writing, skills analysis, career change, computer skills, and more, in order to assist clients in achieving their employment and career goals.• Employing change management techniques and training, as well as experience as a facilitator and change agent, to improve various processes and customer experience at WorkSource North Seattle.• Providing leadership and assistance to over a dozen staff in performing their various duties assisting job seekers, employers, and the community.

Mukilteo, Washington

As the assistant librarian for Challenger Elementary School, a few of my many responsibilities included:• Independently managing day-to-day library operations.• Designing and developing library-simulation e-Learning programs for library volunteers.• Continually training and monitoring student volunteers to properly assist in library operations.• Intensely partnering with library and school staff to improve library services and harmonize those services with school and student needs.Of course, my favorite part has been reaching out to the kids, making the library a warm and welcoming place, and instilling a love of books and reading, especially by sitting them down and reading a fun story for them!

Kawanishi, Hyogo, Japan

Instructor for independent English language academy, working with an international team of educators on all aspects of English language acquisition, where I aided hundreds of individuals in reaching their objectives.• Taught individuals and groups of all ages, backgrounds, ability levels, and requirements, in a wide variety of formats, enabling clients to achieve their personal, academic, and professional goals.• Partnered with a diverse, international team to address individual and program level issues, in order to enhance open, effective communications and efficient problem solving.• Contributed to defining and implementing methodologies critical to achieving organizational goals, such as improving classroom performance, increase student retention, improve the workplace environment, and more.• Coached and readied professionals with specific, individual needs, leading to successful outcomes for dozens of clients with business correspondence, business travel, international convention attendance, presentations at prestigious overseas conferences, and more.• Evaluated overall program and individual results, with complete daily and periodic tracking, recording, and analysis, and backed by objective metrics and collaborative consultation as needed, to ensure that clients were achieving maximum benefit.• Provided efficient and effective methods of monitoring and supporting fellow team member projects, to confirm proper follow-through and improvement of specific client programs.

Kawanishi, Hyogo, Japan

Sole native English instructor for intimate classroom setting in small private school, focusing on adults and children of all ages and skill levels, helping hundreds of students achieve their personal, educational, and professional goals.• Thrived as sole non-native staff member working for a small private English academy!• Developed and implemented curricula to suit the needs of a wide variety of clients, from preschoolers to retirees, raw beginners to advanced learners, and casual learners to those with serious academic or professional goals, so that all received the most suitably tailored educational program.• Collaborated closely with owner-managers to create lesson plans, assess and on-board new students into appropriate classes, select proper class materials, create school and lesson scheduling, and more, in order to improve and enhance all aspects of organizational performance.• Assessed and evaluated student progress weekly, created quarterly progress reports, gave individually tailored mentoring, and consulted with managers and parents regarding student progress when necessary, seeing that clients were satisfied and their goals achieved.• Oversaw all aspects of classroom management and administration, ensuring that classroom operations flowed smoothly, efficiently, and effectively.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History

Certificate, E-Learning Design & Development

Ancient History